From Off the Beaten Path

After much research and investigation, we booked our trip with Overseas Adventure Travel. We found this company to offer the best value for...

I have shared a lot of photographs with you on this trip.  Maybe too many.  Still, I have only been able to convey to you a tiny portion of ...

Even though the poaching of elephants is a huge problem in Africa, we were lucky enough to see lots of elephants on this trip. ...

I've mentioned before about how competent our African guides were.  This is another example.  We were driving down the road after lunc...

Experienced guides will tell you that seeing animals on safari is a lot about luck.  It's about being in the right place at the right ti...

The Sarengeti National Part abuts the Ngorongoro National Wildlife Sanctuary. Combined, the two areas make a huge, 8,900 s...

Shortly after lunch, we came upon a lioness lying in the middle of the road. She and a companion had just made a kill.  Sh...

Ngorongoro Crater is the world's largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera. The crater, is 2,000 feet deep and its floor...

The Maasai are a nomadic people who live in what is called East Africa's Great Rift Valley, an area that borders Kenya and Tanzania.  La...

It turns out the area around Karatu Village has soil that is perfect for growing coffee. Large coffee plantations, mostl...

We spent the night at Karatu Village in Tanzania.  Karatu Village is roughly half way between Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater. ...

We were driving north along the shore of Lake Manyara, looking at birds. Literally, millions of birds, like these Flamingos. ...

Amboseli National Park is quite a bit south of Lake Nakuru, near the Tanzanian border. On our way to Amboseli National Par...

We first visited Lake Nakuru National Park, where we saw our first Rhino up close in the wild. He was grazing in a huge gr...